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Monday, March 2, 2009

Something I Wrote for KKJZ 88.1 in LA When They Asked On Air, "What Does Jazz Mean To Uou?"

It's tempting to start this paragraph with the word Jazz, but jazz survives its own annihilation. I think of jazz as the music that will be playing after the apocalypse. Classical music like that scene in the Titanic with the quartet playing as the ship is sinking, is the music being played during the apocalypse, but after the ego has been incinerated, what is left behind is a world of skeletons, gods and jazz. Embryonic in the dark altar in the heart of Africa jazz is bottled at the source where the universe is heard as one whole note. Jazz is the invocation and propagation of silence that binds all of us together back to a Higher Self. Jazz is freedom within imprisonment. Jazz is the volcano god whose muscle guts the hearts of people with the guts to unlearn everything they know, it's the dark feminine, the tornado, the against the grain of society power, aligned with the north star at all costs, worship of the terrifying moment stripped of all pretense, jazz is life and death, its firefighting, its wrestling the Marlin to ground zero, its a collision of planets, what a blessing we have created together, Africa, America, the whole universe of sound, truly I can see that the big bang, on the one, or the four if you're from New Orleans, is what started this amazing music.

4 comments:

  1. You're plugged in, or unplugged, which ever you prefer.

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  2. "jazz survives its own annihilation" really, really good...

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  3. yesterday I drank from a new well, gazing at a beautiful leaf on the great oak of British conservatism, a tree I have heretofore found reason to be hateful at times. The link is to a professional sound engineering forum. The questioner is a baby, held compassionately in the warm hands of an elder, one Peter Oxford. His discourse unfolds from post #23.

    http://www.gearslutz.com/board/mastering-forum/352357-when-someone-says-12db-rms.html

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  4. Wow thanks Chris I am just seeing this. It's a real honor to be praised by the disembodied school of poetics. God bless you and the Kerouac movement. Peace :)

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